From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 17:28:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF3E1065676 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:28:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5C18FC13 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1EAB6A6647; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:28:03 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.0x20.net Received: from mail.0x20.net ([217.69.76.211]) by mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bm-tAWuBJakE; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:28:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80CBD6A6245; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:28:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1EHS32c004500; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:28:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: (from lars@localhost) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q1EHS1GM003900; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:28:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:28:01 +0100 From: Lars Engels To: Ian Smith Message-ID: <20120214172801.GA93151@e-new.0x20.net> References: <4F355A5B.9080007@rewt.org.uk> <4F35743B.4020302@os2.kiev.ua> <4F37DBA3.7030304@cran.org.uk> <20120213195554.O46120@sola.nimnet.asn.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DaTEgnRu5pEC8TLg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120213195554.O46120@sola.nimnet.asn.au> X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 X-Operation-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Bruce Cran , Alex Samorukov , Joe Holden , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: New BSD Installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:28:05 -0000 --DaTEgnRu5pEC8TLg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:15:17AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:32:51 +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On 2/10/2012 7:47 PM, Alex Samorukov wrote: > > > I am highly against reverting. Old installer is not GPT aware and in= fact > > > is unmaintained for a very long time. > >=20 > > That's not really correct: quite a lot of work was done on it last yea= r. >=20 > Indeed. Was it you working on the updated sade(8) adding GPT and ZFS? >=20 > >=20 > I don't see it in terms of reverting. Much other useful functionality=20 > of sysinstall has yet to be reimplemented.=20 What exactly are you missing? There's sysutils/host-setup to configure your system like sysinstall did. There's sade and I am working on a tool to browse and add packages from the installation media and / or the ftp mirrors. --DaTEgnRu5pEC8TLg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk86maEACgkQKc512sD3afiQtACeOstCNR5OXkxcT5HSwvY4kKj/ it0An2WIGvc1TVimGJpEU7VhZ6uOuAyi =9bEM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DaTEgnRu5pEC8TLg--